One Cut of the Dead

Ten years after making his mark on Spanish cinema with The Spirit of the Beehive, Víctor Erice returned to filmmaking with this adaptation of a novella by Adelaida García Morales, which deepens the director’s fascination with

Collection of films directed by acclaimed Russian film-maker, Andrei Tarkovsky. Ivan’s Childhood (1962) explores the life of a 12-year-old boy, Ivan (Nikolai Burlyayev), who is orphaned after his family are killed by the Nazis during the Second World War. He later joins a partisan group who use his diminutive stature and agility to gather intelligence. Worried […]

What does it mean to film another person? How does it affect the person – and what does it do to the one who films? A boxing match in Brooklyn; life in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina; the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife; an intimate family moment at home: these scenes and others are woven into […]

Mathieu Kassovitz’s landmark mid-90s drama, newly restored in 4K to mark the film’s 25th anniversary. Turning the camera away from iconic Paris to the concrete banlieue, Mathieu Kassovitz’s second film as a director changed the cultural landscape of French cinema when it landed at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995, where it won the prize […]

Malmö 1943. Stig är en 15-årig skolgrabb på väg in i vuxenlivet. Viola är 37 år och hans lärarinna. Han dras till henne tack vare hennes skönhet och spänningen över att hon är en vuxen, och hon dras till honom för hans sköra ungdom och oskuldsfullhet. Deras förbjudna förhållande blir hett och intensivt, men kommer […]

Danmarks egen Pölse-Godzilla tillhör en av de stora kultklassikerna. Förutom att filmen avhandlats i flera kultdokumentärer och att det skrivits en bok om inspelningen så har det skojats friskt om den i tv-serier som South Park och

Considered by many to be the last of the true 40s and 50s film noirs, Odds Against Tomorrow is the story of a daring robbery gone wrong. When ruthless killer Earle Slater (Robert Ryan) teams up with crooked ex-cop Dave Burke (Ed Begley), and gambler Johnny Ingram (Harry Belafonte) to rob a New York bank, things quickly start […]

An affair between actress Selena’s (Juliette Binoche) and writer Léonard (Vincent Macaigne) is nearly discovered among their close friends in Léonard’s thinly veiled autobiographical novel. Fortunately for them, Alain (Guillaume Canet), both Selena’s husband and Léonard’s publisher, rejects the book and remains seemingly oblivious to the whole ordeal, maybe because he’s having his own affair […]